Danielle Watson

Oct 28, 2024 | lowyinstitute.org | Danielle Watson

Increased transnational and organised crime operations have prompted a rethink in Pacific Island countries. Detecting, disrupting and deterring criminal syndicates has meant strengthening regional mechanisms, law enforcement capacity building, expanding stakeholder networks to include non-state partners, and increasing awareness about the many implications of transnational and organised crime on the Pacific way of life.

Jun 24, 2024 | samoaobserver.ws | Richard McGreggor |Danielle Watson |Floyd K. Takeuchi |Esala Nayasi

In 2011, thousands of delegates from over a hundred countries flocked to Busan, South Korea, for the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Addressing delegates at the event, former Tuvaluan finance minister Lotoala Metia spoke of the heavy burden poorly coordinated aid was putting on his administration. The small island government’s planning office, made up of only seven staff, had a single official devoted to managing the country’s relationships with 58 aid partners.

Jun 23, 2024 | samoaobserver.ws | William Robinson |Stephen Howes |Richard McGreggor |Danielle Watson

I am very supportive of the intention of the ‘Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982’ Bill which seeks to redress the injustice of the 1982 legislation that came on the back of one of the darkest periods in New Zealand history of the 1970s, where government-sanctioned raids were held at dawn to arrest and deport ‘overstayers’, particularly Pacific people.

Jun 22, 2024 | policinginsight.com | Danielle Watson

Australia is preparing to establish a new training centre for Pacific police, described as a centrepiece for a new Pacific Policing Initiative with an estimated budget of more than $400 million. “ The new plan also comes at a time when police organisations across the region are buckling under the pressures of strained resourcing for police workstations beyond major cities, inadequate numbers of officers and emerging crime and security threats.

Jun 18, 2024 | lowyinstitute.org | Danielle Watson

Australia is preparing to establish a new training centre for Pacific police, described as a centrepiece for a new Pacific Policing Initiative with an estimated budget of more than $400 million. There is no doubt police organisations across the region face pressing challenges, not only in traditional policing but in combating the transnational nature of crime, which demands internationally coordinated responses. But this new initiative has the potential to duplicate current efforts.